Management’s strong man plays the trombone

Marcus Buckingham qualifies as the strongest proponent of a strength focus at work. Here is a snippet of an email I received about his latest film: Trombone Player Wanted.

I’m hoping that you’ll be interested in my new short-film series called, for reasons that should become apparent when you watch it, Trombone Player Wanted…..the point of the film is not this boy’s story – his name is Ewan, as it happens. The point is to help you find your strengths and put them to work. All the data I’ve seen suggests that, for most of us, this proves exceptionally hard to do – in repeated polls only 17% of us say that we get to play to our strengths at work most of the time. Given that each of us is supposed to be our organization’s “greatest asset” this 17% number is alarmingly low. Visit http://www.marcusbuckingham.com/Film/ to learn more about the film. Best of all for those who like bargains, the short film series is available for $99 (the same number as Wayne Gretzky who displayed an amazing array of strengths in hockey).

I just purchased these CDs – I’ll be reviewing them tonight and using them on Tuesday with a group of salespeople who each has the Now Discover Your Sales Strengths CDs. They’ve all taken the strengths-finder questionnaire and we’ll see what we can create on Tuesday with the DVDs and their indexes. I’ll let you know!